14 Yahoo Innovations Edit

From Yahoo Mail to 3D News
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Yahoo Search and Yahoo Mail are only portions of the competing services Yahoo has launched in order to stay current with their biggest rival, Google.

From their own YouTube style video sharing platform and news in 3D to the addition of new email domains, Yahoo is clearly keen on innovating, showing a solid refusal to lag behind.

Below are some of the top innovations by Yahoo.

Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Mail Offline Free - Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop

Yahoo! beats Google in the race to create an offline email client with the release of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop. Besides working offline, the free e-mail software offers extra functionality, such as online… [More]

New Yahoo Email Domains - YMail and RocketMail

Yahoo knows you’re frustrated with the unavailability of email user names which is why, as of tomorrow, they’ll be offering Ymail and Rocketmail.  Ymail.com and Rocketmail.com give people have a fresh [More]

Email Providers Go Head to Head - Yahoo Offers Unlimited E-Mail Storage

Yahoo, the world’s biggest e-mail service and one biggest online portal,  is set to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its millions and millions of subscribers starting this May. According to the co-founder [More]

Yahoo’s Customer Customization

Build Your Own Search - Yahoo BOSS

Yahoo is letting you Build Your Own Search with a new open search web services program. To capitalize on the gargantuan value of global search results, Yahoo BOSS will allow people to customize the way [More]

In-Game Ads to Boost Revenue - Yahoo! Games Now Ad Supported

Yahoo! Games are now ad-supported, integrating advertisements for real companies within the virtual worlds of interactive play. With the help of Double Fusion, a firm specializing in casual game video [More]

Other

Digg Competitor - Yahoo Buzz Beta (GALLERY)

Yahoo is doing whatever they can to boost their overall value. Their latest venture is a Digg style news site they’re calling Yahoo Buzz Beta which launches February 26, 2008. When I checked it out today, [More]

Yahoo News To Be Delivered In 3-D

Yahoo’s latest effort is a 3-D news/mapping web application that allows for the viewer to follow the day’s stories as they happen across the globe. This application combines Yahoo News RSS feeds with a [More]

Yahoo’s YouTube Killer - Yahoo Live Now Active

Six people have quietly launched Yahoo Live.  This experiment comes from the Google competitor, but with a very small team of testers, will they be able to correctly evaluate if the YouTube competitor [More]

Yahoo Launches Online Video Show

Aimed at the young and web savvy, Yahoo has launched a beta of a TV-like online video show called “The 9”  it’s a daily video compilation show featuring the nine top “Web finds” of the day. The requisite [More]

Yahoo Phone - Linksys CIT310

A phone with Yahoo inside! Cool!! The CIT310 comes with a base station that can connect to both a conventional phone line and a PC’s USB port. Yahoo Messenger is built in to the device. Users can make [More]

Yahoo Time Capsule

This new site from Yahoo shares with you, athropology captures,voices,and stories from an online community.See photos and articles from around the world.“Share a piece of your world and be a part of history”. [More]

Yahoo Site Explorer

With the search engine wars getting fiercer by the day, its only natural to see innovative stuff being belted out from the stables of the Big3. Well, this time its Yahoo! with its awesome new ‘Site Search’ [More]

Business

Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo

Remember when Google bought YouTube and the joke was GooTube? Now Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo. So is that Microhoo, or YaSoft? It’s not a friendly deal, Microsoft made a $44.6 billion bid on the company. [More]

More Targeted Ads - Yahoo Acquires BlueLithium (VIDEO)

Yahoo just bought the fifth biggest US ad network for $300 million. Their acquisition of BlueLithium is Yahoo’s “latest move to consolidate the behavioral ad targeting market,” Reuters reported.  The [More]